Motivational Quotes

Knowledge

The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Knowledge

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.

Bradley, Francis H.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.

Margaret Fuller

All men by nature desire knowledge.

Aristotle

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do.

Mueller, Robert K.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, Know thyself, and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

Eliot, George

Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

15.

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

Eliot, George

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would.

Starr, Lonny

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Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

22.

The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn.

Haskins, Caryl

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

Richard Feynman

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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

Russell, Bertrand

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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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Know thyself. Nothing in excess. The Self is required to balance the Self.

Ralph, Blum

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Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Saying

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Channing, William Ellery

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Samuel Johnson

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Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You never know yourself till you know more than your body.

Traherne, Thomas

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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gibran, Kahlil

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One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.

Simmons, Jake

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

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You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Cronenberg, David